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Is this made of aluminium or steel? The bar that comes with C8 scope is aluminium and seems to be too soft for screws on AVX mount.

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Question by: Domagoj Percin on May 9, 2017 8:39:00 AM | 1 Answer(s)

This is hard-aluminum and the fit onto the Celestron OTA is better than with the original dove-tail.
It is no probem though if the screw will make an imprint into the aluminum. Still we use a harder variant of aluminum. Steel would be impossible because most mounts would be overweighted.

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